Justification:Hylomyscus baeri is a West African species, assessed as Endangered because it has a small area of occupancy (<500 km² as far as it is known at present; possibly even less than 10 km²) and it is known only from a few collections. The population is probably undergoing continuing decline due to deforestation for agriculture and local firewood collection. Further collections or range extensions could affect this assessment in future.

This poorly-known West African species has been recorded from Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana (Gautun and Bellier 1970, Robbins and Setzer 1979, Robbins et al. 1980), a disjunct record from Panguma, Sierra Leone (Grubb et al. 1998), and a record from Ziama, Guinea (Nicolas et al. 2006). It is a lowland species occurring up to about 500 m asl.

It is a tropical lowland forest species which has also been found in secondary forest, forest edge and plantations (Gautun and Bellier 1970). This is a very distinctive species which would not be missed during collecting or in collections.